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Catcher plays for both teams in same game

Catcher Danny Jansen makes history as the first player to play for both teams in the same Major League Baseball game.

Catcher Danny Jansen has made history as the first player to play for both teams in the same Major League Baseball game. Remarkably, Jansen was the player batting at the plate for the Blue Jays when the game was halted two months ago. That meant his former side had to put up another batter - pinch-hitter Daulton Varsho - in his place, while Jansen, now in the Red Sox's uniform rather than Toronto's, was the catcher for the hosts at Boston's Fenway Park.

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